Accounting Manager - Govt. and Compliance

Accounting Manager - Govt. and Compliance
Accounting Manager - Govt. and Compliance
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Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society. 
  • Supervise accountants on the financial reporting and electoral compliance team. Drive process improvements, technical advancements, and transformation within electoral and financial reporting to identify gaps and create solutions to issues. Prepare and review state and federal filings, including filings for 527 Entity reporting. Prepare and review reconciliations for electoral (IRS and state specific) filings. Assist with non-profit entity audit, invoice reconciliation, and complex journal entries and schedules related to audit, including managing the year-end invoice accrual process as well as working directly with high-volume vendors. Managing the audit process and outstanding items as well as working directly with the auditors to explain accounting transactions and variance analysis. Review invoices for accurate coding for AFP, AFPF, and AFPA in Concur. Assist with AFP/AFPF audit, invoice reconciliation, and complex JE’s and schedules related to audit.
  • Must have a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field and 7 years of general accounting experience.
  • Must have 5 years of experience in each of the following:
  • Balance sheet reconciliations; and
  • Excel experience including pivot tables and vlookups.
  • Must have 2 years of experience in each of the following:
  • C4 tax-status entities and expense tracking;
  • Supervising experience;
  • Electoral compliance finance accounting financial reporting environment; and
  • Federal and state filing experience for political work.
  • Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days per week.

Our Values: Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. Our culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers our employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.   

We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success, and that is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity.
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